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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the
bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified as being kosher.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural, 
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the
largest anagrams.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula."

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig
farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor:
Mint Oreo.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If NASA sent birds into space, they would soon die because they need 
gravity to swallow.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its
mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they
rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military
salute.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous
transatlantic flight.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write
if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's
baby daughter, Ruth.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the
same sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its
eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known
as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is
called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales
is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens
is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of
larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann named the sub-atomic particles known as
quarks for a random line written by James Joyce:  "Three quarks for
Muster Mark!"

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses
were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the
bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about
because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three
dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once,
on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's
real name on Gilligan's Island was Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once
in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they
could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

Ivory bar soap was not supposed to float. They had been overmixing the
soap formula, causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers
wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated 
ever since.

If a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about a
thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the
twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to 
realize what is occurring before it relaxes and corrects itself.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise, it will digest itself.